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BEYOND THE LIMITS TO PLANNING FOR EQUITY:
THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS AS
EMPOWERMENT MODELS IN PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES
by
Murtaza Hatim Baxamusa
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PLANNING)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Murtaza Hatim Baxamusa
Object Description
| Title | Beyond the limits to planning for equity: the emergence of community benefits agreements as empowerment models in participatory processes |
| Author | Baxamusa, Murtaza Hatim |
| Author email | baxamusa@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Planning |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-11-20 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-02-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Richardson, Harry W. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Banerjee, Tridib Saito, Leland |
| Abstract | The limits of planning for equity emerge from institutional emphases on certainty, which are often antithetical to the social and economic variables that surround land-use. This is evident in plans and processes that operate within the status quo of existing power structures. The result is a fundamental disagreement in planning on what it is that is equitable -- outcomes, processes, or power? On the one hand, communicative theorists prescribe participatory processes that allow diverse interests to compete equally using rational deliberation. On the other hand, Foucauldians question whether any process is meaningful under the dominating power of the growth coalition.; Given the deep tension between the primacy of process and the primacy of power, the theoretical question raised is -- do participatory processes balance the power of the growth coalition in planning for equity? The associated question for advocacy planning practice is -- what is the appropriate role for participatory processes in planning for equity? These questions lead us the extent to which plans should address the equity impacts of large-scale development, and the limits of plans and planning processes.; The solution presented in this dissertation is to allow the disempowered objects of planning to become the subjects of a power-process within a social movement. The power wielded by the dominant growth coalition is balanced by uncertainty in the plural planning processes. Thus the role of planning is to explicitly determine the limits of a plan within outcomes that are determinable with relative degree of certainty, and beyond these limits, to subject outcome uncertainty to proportional process uncertainty.; The "Community Benefits Agreement" is a development agreement between a public or private developer and a community coalition. Two case studies, the expansion of LAX in Los Angeles, and the Ballpark Villages in San Diego, are models of participatory deliberation that is empowering to stakeholder groups. Unlike individual and discursive forms of empowerment that dissipate when aproject is approved, the community coalition approach aims at long-term redistribution of power. |
| Keyword | development agreement; sustainable; advocacy; labor coalition |
| Geographic subject | airport features: Los Angeles International Airport; housing areas: Ballpark Villages |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; San Diego |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1010 |
| Rights | Baxamusa, Murtaza Hatim |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Baxamusa-20080208 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume35/etd-Baxamusa-20080208.pdf |
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| Full text | BEYOND THE LIMITS TO PLANNING FOR EQUITY: THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS AS EMPOWERMENT MODELS IN PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES by Murtaza Hatim Baxamusa A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PLANNING) May 2008 Copyright 2008 Murtaza Hatim Baxamusa |
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